An engineer is designing a high-density WLAN for a 10,000-seat auditorium.

For a high-density WLAN environment like a 10,000-seat auditorium, placing APs under the seats can take advantage of human attenuation and maintain the aesthetics of the room. Human bodies absorb Wi-Fi signals, and placing APs under the seats helps in mitigating this effect by having the signals emanate from among the audience, rather than from above where the signals would have to pass through the audience, resulting in signal degradation1.